Night Hacker

uthful of wolfberry water.
Mentality is very important.
For now, it’s best to just lie down.

 “What happened to the test results last night?”

Gu He recalled carefully when Captain Lorna and the others left, he was still stable, and the vortex of light in his mind kept showing “nerve overdrive”.

Speaking of which, the illusion was quite real.

Thinking of this, suddenly, he felt that the spinning vortex of light appeared in his mind again.

“What the hell?” Gu He was so frightened that he changed from a slumped sitting to an upright sitting.

Why is this hallucination still there, the sequelae of fragmentation?

As soon as he focused his attention on the vortex of light, a splendid blue and purple light overflowed uncontrollably, resembling the dazzling halo caused by a city advertisement screen.
When the brilliant light falls, an old-fashioned electronic panel emerges from the original vortex of light.

The panel is about the size of a keyboard, and the surface is covered with hazy light and shadow.
It seems that it has not been fully activated.
Only a few light bars like program progress bars and some buttons can be vaguely seen on the panel.

The only buttons that can be seen clearly for the time being are:

    【DATABASE】

    【COMPILER】

    【SHARE】

“?????”

Gu He frantically shook his head as if he were attempting to shake these hallucinations out, but he was unable to do so.

He couldn’t help remembering that he was transmigrated due to a power leakage of the computer, and the panel really felt like a computer console.

Is this my transmigration fortune? 

But…

As a psychiatrist who is proficient in both applied psychology and psychiatry, I usually like to read “Madness and Civilization”.(2) The first thing that comes to my mind is not my sudden adventure, but…  

“I’m not going crazy, am I?”

Gu He blankly looked at the console panel in his mind.

If the patient has any hallucinations, and a psychiatrist believes it.
He would no longer be a psychiatrist but the younger brother of the “world president”, “alien world liaison officer”, “reincarnated emperor” and other strange people…

Even the concept of transmigration can be called a mental problem.

“Reduplicative Paramnesia”(3)

This is a rare psychotic disorder characterized by a patient’s firm belief that some things around him are out of pocket, such as a different spouse, another hometown, or, worse, that the whole world is out of pocket.

 After a while, the illusion in his mind remained unchanged.

Gu He had to explore carefully, but the [Database] and [Compiler] could not be opened.

He tried to click the [Share] button again…

Suddenly and unexpectedly, some message boxes bounced like they were out of order:

“No shared contacts available”

“The current number of new shared contacts is: 1”

“Making new sharing contacts”

Gu He’s nerves boiled as all manner of weird light suddenly flooded his consciousness, and all of the living room’s scenes around the sofa were swiftly transformed into glorious and solidified light and darkness.

He feels as though he’s reached another dimension and that the console is distantly connected to another brain.

Unbearable sensation, a woman’s thin form towering in the foreground amid the light and shade.

She appeared to be sitting on the ground, looking to the left and the right while appearing startled and overwhelmed.

“Who are you…” Sure enough, there was a female voice over there.
The other party’s voice line was inaudible and appeared to be disconnected at any moment like the signal strength was weak, and the sound was mingled with squeaking like a video cassette tape “Am I in… the mind network?”

Terrific, I’m actually crazy…

Gu He was even more shocked than her, and words such as dissociative disorder, schizophrenia, and paranoia flashed through his mind.

 Listening to what she meant, it seemed that he was really connected to her soul, like a video call.

However, he is more inclined to believe that he went mad and constructed a second personality which spoke to himself

The squeaking sound like a cassette is still there, the connection has not been disconnected, but the other party is also cautiously silent.

After a stalemate, the female voice suddenly said again:

“Did Santo Company send you here? I don’t know how you can do this, but I will continue to investigate and won’t yield.”

Uh, girl, who are you, where are you, what are you talking about?

Gu He heard question marks all over his head(4), and said tentatively, “I look at you for a long time, I look at you for a long time…”

枸杞水 wolfberry water tastes like shit btw, personal opinion ofc Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la folie à l’âge classique by Michel Foucault.
Further Reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_and_Civilization Reduplicative Paramnesia, is a false conviction that a location has been replicated, is present in two or more locations at once or has been “relocated” to another area.
(The author did his research shesh), Is Gu He seriously insane, who knows? Further Reading: https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/337748 I concurred with the guy in the comments who linked this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4gXzaE8nxg “我看你老半天了，看你老半天了……” Internet meme: of Pan Changjiang and Xie Mengwei where Pan Changjiang ask Xie Mengwei to not sell wine online, “not good”.
Then, later on, Pan Changjiang himself took a wine sponsorship Meaning: It is a metaphor for seniors with higher status and seniority in the industry who pretend to persuade young people to make themselves in a favourable position in the competition of the industry.
Heres a clip : https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1DA411V7Mp/ Some of the raws (mostly the classes and slang) were indecipherable even for a half-mainlander like myself, as such there might be some liberties taken.
Also my first translation project (˘ ˘ ˘)